Melchior the Harsh

Melchior the Harsh (332 AD-) was a general of the Sassanid Empire. He was high-ranking, as he held the title of Eran Spahbod (Army Chief).

Biography
Melchior was a skilled cavalry and infantry commander who could fight at night, with his commanding skills. He was also an authoritarian governor, showing no mercy to those who dared defy the Sassanid Empire law. Melchior was also a natural Zoroastrian follower and also a Zoroastrian preacher, and was accompanied by a Zoroastrian philosopher.

The great commander was initially defeated by the Eastern Roman Empire's general Equitius Flavius in Armenia in 381 AD, but in 382 AD Melchior's small army of Persian troops overcame the Romans and Equitius was among the dead.